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Metacritic bemoans 2012's lack of quality
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AllIsOneIsNone
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Triple A games have been really disappointing to me this year, but pc gaming is definitely rocking it hard. Out with the old, in with the new I say. It's as simple as the big guys in the industry sucking the life out of the popular games until a new wizard with plenty of life appears out of thin air. And the cycle continues, and metacritic still sucks.
AHA-Lambda
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Well it has been known as the year of AAA disappointment and the prominence of the indie for a reason.
Vigilant Walrus
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Well it's like anything else really. the shit that gets the best reviews in films and music, is often not what is the best.
Look, to me it's been a terrific year. For Planetside 2 and Guild Wars 2 alone, I felt that online gaming took a colossal leap forward!
It's the same sites that keep building hype for the next call of duty, madden and Halo, that scream foul when they receive more of it, and it ain't new. It's great to have smaller niche titles taking center stage like Mark of the Ninja and The Walking Dead.
How can that be bad? because some shooter series for the 4th year in a row didnt brought down the house with small nifty touches like innovative blood spatter effects and extra sized cornyness on the military-gi-joe gunho story? sppfftttt.
People have some weird feelings about sequels. cant live with them, cant live without em!
Look, to me it's been a terrific year. For Planetside 2 and Guild Wars 2 alone, I felt that online gaming took a colossal leap forward!
It's the same sites that keep building hype for the next call of duty, madden and Halo, that scream foul when they receive more of it, and it ain't new. It's great to have smaller niche titles taking center stage like Mark of the Ninja and The Walking Dead.
How can that be bad? because some shooter series for the 4th year in a row didnt brought down the house with small nifty touches like innovative blood spatter effects and extra sized cornyness on the military-gi-joe gunho story? sppfftttt.
People have some weird feelings about sequels. cant live with them, cant live without em!
ii Stryker
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I bemoan Metacritic for its lack of quality
It would be a dream come true.
It's mostly the high budget games that are being referred to here. Meanwhile...
Real talk.
Real talk.
SapientWolf
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I think there are less homogenous games coming out, so the scores are less homogenous as well. And I'm okay with that.
Shadow of the BEAST
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videogame reviews are crap.
either:
they have some sort of checklist. where they add or deduct points based on having certain features say multiplayer or what have you.
or they review things based on what they think their readers might think, thats why sequels to popular games often get better score. And they simply dont want to upset their fanboy readers.
or they dont want to upset the advertisers.
Or its a combination of all.
either:
they have some sort of checklist. where they add or deduct points based on having certain features say multiplayer or what have you.
or they review things based on what they think their readers might think, thats why sequels to popular games often get better score. And they simply dont want to upset their fanboy readers.
or they dont want to upset the advertisers.
Or its a combination of all.
Doctor Decimate
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when you keep adding more and more no-name sites that give low scores just to make a name for themselves, are you really surprised? really?
Heard this one PlayerOne podcast, there seems to be a disconnect between reviewers and individuals like the ones in the GAF community. Two examples of well reviewed games that have kind of rang hollow to may are Halo 4 and Diablo 3. Mass Effect 3 is also a great example of this. I think we are nearing the point were the 10 point scale might not still apply.
Shining Sunshine
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Walking Dead's 9 review score shouldn't count.
Persona 4 Golden is the real winner this year, meaning the best game of the year is on the Vita, the best console.
Persona 4 Golden is the real winner this year, meaning the best game of the year is on the Vita, the best console.
There's no lack of diversity in gaming.
Well there is something wrong with Metacritic itself and its methods as it just pronounced a game to be GOTY based on the aggregate review score of 9 reviews.
Dear God! Are you really comparing the two games? Are you really refering to some kind of rating for Journey?
SatelliteOfLove
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Also, imbalanced in the players favor vs even/imbalanced against the player.
Or Narrative vs joy of playing.
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I'd wager this has little to do with quality and more to do with a shift we're seeing away from the 7-9, 100 point review scale. This is one of the reasons I think Super Mario Galaxy and Grand Theft Auto IV will remain at the top of the all-time lists--not because they're the best games ever, but because I doubt we'll ever see such ubiquitous score inflation across review outlets.
No i was really comparing the reaction that ME3 got when it was released, the sour aftertaste it left and how it is still a highly divisive game as opposed to Journey which was received with near universal praise. And yet ME3 seems to have gotten the better score.
Kenshin001
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Wasn't the 360 version of TWD the broken one? There is a big thread on the Telltale forums about it:
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42138
http://www.telltalegames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=42138
GrotesqueBeauty
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Don't worry guys, we just need shiny new graphics, which for a couple years will convince critics games are more amazing than they actually are. Then we'll all acclimate quickly to the new bells and whistles afforded by next gen hardware, find some extremely minor IQ issue to latch onto and blow out of proportion, and the cycle will start anew.
Journey shouldn't be scored because it's not a game per se, it's an experienced as believers say. There are some graphics, some sound, some story, some everything in Journey but it's something that lasts several hours, has minimalistic gameplay and story and is purely stimulative for the imagination. You can't judge Journey with normal criteria imo.
And I'm not sure you're right with that universal praise. It's a very divisive game. Some people fell in love, some were disapointed.
Scores don't matter honestly, we all know how scores can inflate in both cases : moneyhats and/or hype, will to see video games considered as a new form of art.
Baconsammy
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In other news, Paula Dean lamented the lack of non-obese viewers.
Funchameleon
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Waaa we killed off uncountable creative teams and talents with our completely ridiculous score agitation system and now we're bemoaning the lack of completely arbitrary scores on our good-as-arbitrary measuring system and pointing to a lack of quality of games when it is a much an indictment on the slowly changing world of games journalism.
Please.
Please.
Bleh, Journey is just as much a game as Mass Effect 3 or Super Mario. It's just a different kind of game, less emphasis on some things & more in others. It's silly to have such strict boundaries of what make a game and what doesn't.
Though, I do agree Journey shouldn't be scored, but I also think NO game should be scored. The text of the review itself is almost always more important than some number slapped after it.
I'm like 99% sure he's being serious.
And why is disliking the Vita an "agenda"? As if there aren't legitimate reasons to criticize it as a gaming platform.
chickdigger802
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odd that TWD scored so high on 360 retail. Isn't that version completely broken?
if that is the case, this industry is in serious trouble.
Mass Effect 2 never installed on my ps3.
Fallout 3 bricked my PS3.
Skyrim..
holy fuck that is the case!
CambriaRising
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Everything I have heard about that version is that it is definitely the worst.
MotionBlue
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The sooner Metacritic stops being a thing, the better.
Shining Sunshine
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Probably just put out so that it can be scored as an entire series than its episodic nature on metacritic.
There's really no reason for that version to be any different than the total of its parts.
Interesting, no gaemz & no quality confirmed.
Yeah, the Vita smashed it this year. I think Metacritic summed up the enthusiast mindset perfectly however:
Good sales > good games.